Overcoming Amalek
It's not every day that one of my Twitter followers tags me and six other people with 'my latest blog post' and I get a notice from Twitter that nearly 100 people have retweeted a tweet in which my name is mentioned. It was enough to at least look at what the post is about. It's about a group that's attempting to
subvert weak Israeli Jews. And I know I have at least one reader who devotes his life to stopping them.
When Am Yisrael came out of
Egypt, it was the weak that Amalek targeted and killed physically.
Although the goal of some of Am Yisrael’s enemies, disguised as friends,
is not to attack, their method has remained the same. Today, when Am
Yisrael is in his Home in Eretz Yisrael, it is again the weak that they
target, this time in an effort to induce a spiritual demise upon us.
I am referring to missionaries,
the Eleventh Plague, who spend millions of dollars and every precious
minute of their time trying to convert Jews, disguising their efforts as
love for the People of G-d, in order to save us. As in the past, these
new Amalekites target the weak, the stragglers, the ill-prepared, the
faint and the weary.
Unlike the ancient Amalekites
who were militarily sneaky, albeit very outright and direct about their
agenda, today’s robbers of Jewish souls and the Jewish spirit of the
recipients of the Torah use every devious method to achieve their goal.
They very carefully choose their victims. They target the needy, the
poor, kids from broken families, lone IDF soldiers with no support
network in the country or new olim who are looking for friends. In the
words of S. Jonah Pressman, a long time follower of missionaries who is
well familiar with their Modus Operandi “Wherever you find a ‘needy’
individual, you will find a missionary vulture ready to swoop down and
pick at the flesh until the soul becomes his.”
Once they have identified their
prey, the missionaries then set themselves to luring their victims. They
do it by offering them money, food, inviting them for “Shabbat
Dinners”, handing out candy bars and showering them with attention and
promises for a better life. That is how Shay Gorohovsky fell into their
trap.
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If you're just getting online now...
If you're just getting online now after the three-day holiday and cannot see everything I've posted since Thursday on my home page, you may want to consider clicking over to my
Twitter feed. And while you're there, if you're not following me already, please consider doing so.
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For those getting online now
For those of you getting online now for the first time since Wednesday afternoon, Moadim l'Simcha, a happy holiday. If you find that the blog home page does not bring up all of Thursday's and Friday's posts (which is likely), you may want to consider looking at my Twitter feed
here.
You do not have to be signed up for Twitter to look at the Twitter feed. But if you are on Twitter and you don't follow me already, please consider following me while you are there.
By the time you read this, I should be on my way to the Kotel (Western Wall) for Sunday morning's services.
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Twitter users need not worry about bit.ly going down
I was wondering about this myself, since I use Twitter Feed and Twitter Feed uses bit.ly to shorten URL's. Unlike others, I knew that bit.ly was hosted in Libya. But there's no need to worry about the Libyan government
shutting bit.ly down.
Until Feb. 15, Twitter users who rely on bit.ly to shorten their Internet links didn't give much thought to what the "ly" stands for. Turns out the "ly" means the domain is registered in Libya, where dictator Colonel Moammar Khadafy restricted Internet access in the wake of unrest.
Bit.ly CEO John Borthwick took to the Q&A site Quora to assure users that, "Should Libya block Internet traffic, as Egypt did, it will not affect http://bit.ly or any .ly do main."
For problems to occur in .ly do mains, all five .ly root servers would have to be offline, he wrote. Of the five, two are in Libya, two are in Oregon and one is in the Netherlands.
Good news....
By the way, if you don't yet follow me on Twitter, you ought to
go here and start.
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